SB66 Alabama 2016 Session

Under existing law, it is illegal to own, maintain, sell, or trade any canidae or felidae for which there is no USDA licensed rabies vaccine

This bill would include in the authorized vaccines that can be used an FDA approved rabies vaccine

This bill would make it illegal to possess, sell, transfer, or breed any large felidae, defined as a tiger, lion, leopard, snow leopard, clouded leopard, jaguar, cheetah, or cougar, or any wolf, or hybrid thereof, with certain exceptions

This bill would allow persons who lawfully possessed a large felidae or wolf prior to the effective date of this act to keep the animal under certain conditions

This bill would authorize a local governing body to adopt registration fees based on the number of large felidaes or wolves owned and require payment of these registration fees annually

This bill would provide penalties

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment

Relating to animals; to amend Section 3-8-1 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to required rabies vaccines for canidae or felidae, to further provide for the authorized rabies vaccines that can be used; to add Section 3-8-2 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to make it illegal to possess, sell, transfer, or breed any living large felidae, as defined, or wolf, or hybrid thereof, with exceptions; to authorize a local governing body to adopt annual registration fees for large felidaes or wolves, under certain conditions; to provide penalties; and in connection therewith to have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.